Target.



No. 683,503. Patented (lot. I, 19m.

H. SCHLOERB.

TARGET.

(Application filed Jan. 21, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: INVENTOR- ZQM 14 M ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SCI-ILOERB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO SAMUEL' S. BALDWIN, OF SAME PLACE.

TARGET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,503, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed January 21, 1901- Serial No. 44,078. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SoHLoERB, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mechanical Targets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to targets of a mechanical orderthat is to say, having certain moving parts operated by the impact thereupon of a projectile-and my improvements apply more particularly to a target of such nature for parlor or indoor use.

In the drawings accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved target, the moving parts being. extended. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the target, showing the moving parts retracted. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of Fig. 2.

The target proper consists of a board A, composed of wood or other material capable of surface penetr'ation,so that a sharp-pointed dart or the like may stick therein. Said target is provided upon its front surface with the usual series of concentric circles; but its central portion is removed or hollowed out, as at a, for the purpose of receiving a movable bulls-eye portion, as a.

A movable object, as a picture or the representation of some pleasing or amusing device, (indicated in the drawings by the letter 13,) is located at the upper rear side of the target, being secured to a rod or stem O,which latter is slidably supported in the eyelets or guides 12 b, the eyelet I) being secured to the rear of the bnlls-eye 66', while the eyelet b is fastened to the target at a point below the bulls-eye. Thus the rod 0, bearing the object B, may slide vertically within its guides, while lateral movement is avoided.

A tensional device, as an elastic band D, is arranged between the moving object and the target, being secured to the latter, as at old, and to the former, as by a hook d. When the tension is relaxed, the moving object is exposed above thetarget, as in Fig. 1; but upon retraction of the moving object to obscure it from view behind the target tensional energy is created for a future display.

A lip 6, extending at the lower rear edge of the target, serves as a catch to enter a nick e or the equivalent in the rod 0 to form a retaining-lock against the tensional force exerted when the object is in the retracted position.

As will be readily understood, a slight impact against the front surface of the loose bulls-eye a, as the shock from a dart blown through a tube,will suffice to release the catch engagement, whereupon the moving object will be thrown upwardly by its tensional device.

E indicates a handle provided at the lower end of rod 0 to operate same, but which handle serves the additional function of a stop by its ability to engage with the lip e, thereby limiting the upward movement of object Bbeyond a desirable point.

Having described a simple operative construction of my improved target, I wish it to be understood that my invention is not limited to the precise structural details herein set forth, the same being susceptible of various modifications to which I am equally entitled, and I therefore claim as follows:

In combination, a target having a central aperture, a bulls-eye fitting loosely therein, and having an eyelet at its back, a vertical rod fitting slidably within said eyelet and through another eyelet secured to the target, said rod supporting a display object; a tensional connection between the rod and target, a catch upon the target, and a recess in the rod to engage therewith when retracted under tension, the release of the catch engagement causing the rod with its display object to be moved by its tensional connection.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 4th day of January, 1901.

HENRY SOHLOERB.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. S. LoNeHURsT, F. W. BARKER. 

